Cloud Computing In Education

Cloud computing gives easier way for any departments, and gives better flexibility to education IT departments. The applications or platform can be used on-premises or off-premises depending on academic organization’s needs or department’s needs. The advantages of cloud computing that can help us to resolve some of the common challenges us in our department’s problems.

• Cost. Choose the best cost, whichever works best with the organization’s business model.
• Flexibility. Cloud computing allows us to dynamically scale as demands fluctuate and Scale the infrastructure to maximize investments.
• Privacy. Cloud Computing helps the organization’s business to  make data and services publicly available without sensitive information.

“Microsoft cloud services” Choices in the cloud

When we use Microsoft cloud services, we choose deploy on-premises, have the software hosted as a service, or use a combination of the two. We can choose how to best combine:

• Infrastructure as a service. Get on-demand computing and storage to host, scale, and manage applications and services.
• Platform as a service. a service consists of an operating system, fully relational database, and claims access controller providing security-enhanced connectivity that called Windows Azure cloud platform.
• Software as a service. Microsoft hosts online services that provide the faculty, staff  or students with a consistent experience across multiple devices.
• Microsoft Office 365 for Education provides free email, websites, online document editing and storage, and IM and video conferencing.
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online provides management solutions deployed through Microsoft Office Outlook or an Internet browser to help your customers efficiently automate workflows and centralize information.
• Office Web Apps provide on-demand access to the web-based version of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, including Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint.